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Mark Groaning

by Jonathan Everitt

Yes, there are some things you just can’t learn in school. This painter, glass artist, sculptor and jewelry designer is living proof. “What surprises most people is that I am predominantly self taught,” Mark says. “I experiment with materials that interest me and use whatever knowledge I can glean from the internet or books. And—of [...]

Matt Wittmeyer

by Jonathan Everitt

Left to right, Walnut salad from Pittsford restaurant Label 7; Brother Wease, host of The Wease Show on WFXF-FM 95.1; and high-end home décor are among the subjects Matt has tackled for Rochester Magazine.   Gourmet salads, public figures, and bathroom sinks have never looked so good. This freelance photographer has been spreading his wings [...]

Rachel McKibbens

by Jonathan Everitt

The distance from brutalized girl to loving mom is wider than one page. Rachel would know. She’s been both. And she’s filled the space between with poetry. You can hear it when her voice glows warm with wisdom. Or rage. Or love. “Reading aloud brings new blood,” says the mother of five, who lives in [...]

TeeJay

by Jonathan Everitt

“The date is fuzzy, but as near as we can figure it was 1991,” TeeJay says of the year she got her start as a tattoo artist. Fuzzy, maybe. But one thing’s clear. A respect for individual dignity—and disinterest in trends and critics—have served her well these past two decades. Here, TeeJay works on her [...]

Joe Guy Allard

by Jonathan Everitt

The world of robots and zombies is full of weird creatures who have a glimmer of humanity. Just ask C-3PO. Or Shaun of the Dead. Or Joe Guy Allard: creator of a tongue-in-cheek world somewhere between brushstrokes and comics. Joe has shown and sold his acrylic-on-canvas work at art festivals, galleries, coffeehouses, bars, and tattoo [...]

Brandon Alexander

by Jonathan Everitt

Brandon performs the Spanish sequence from the Nutcracker with partner Tara Lally. When he was just 12, he won a full scholarship to Houston Ballet Ben Stevenson Academy. Photo by Rochester City Ballet photographer Tim LeverettThe story of The Nutcracker may not include any ghosts of Christmas Past, but for Brandon, performing in this holiday [...]

Emily Winters

by Jonathan Everitt

Emily’s living room was very small and dark (below). She opened it up by exposing the original hardwood floors, painting the fireplace a lighter color, and installing a windowed door to the adjoining sunroom. She dropped the curtains, added blinds, switched the chandelier and changed the room’s entire color palette.When she purchased her first house [...]

Sarah Mattison Staebell

by Jonathan Everitt

If you’ve ever watched the FOX TV series Glee, you already know how life-affirming it can be for kids to take the stage and sing their hearts out. Lucky for Sarah, she gets to help them do it—day and night. Sarah serves as vocal director at Artists Unlimited, a Rochester theatre group that casts special [...]

Igor Lipinski

by Jonathan Everitt

Igor first came to Rochester by way of Buffalo, where he had a role in a play about Polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Years earlier, at a piano competition in Kasna Dolna, Poland, named for that same composer, Igor won the Grand Prix for Young Pianists at 12. On another related note, Paderewski frequently visited [...]

Hannah Betts

by Jonathan Everitt

Hannah’s fondness for vintage glamour sparkles from this photo shoot with first-time model Jenna Rusnak. “I love capturing my subjects young or old, and setting them in a time or place that doesn’t exist in the present,” she says.Flea market treasures. Preschool punk rock. Femmes fatales. Digital savvy and faded film. Welcome to the collision [...]

Pepsy M. Kettavong

by Jonathan Everitt

Pepsy stands beside the centerpiece of his installation, “Lynching in America.” Photo by James Bogue  His work has captured some of America’s finest figures and darkest days—from grand bronze statues to grim, abstract art installations. But in every piece, the common thread is this Rochester sculptor’s passion for social justice. It’s fitting that some of [...]

Luke Copping

by Jonathan Everitt

“Hollywood Geisha,” an editorial assignment featuring model Kerry Quaile. Luke’s photography has an offbeat intensity and rich texture that makes fabric and skin sumptuous. In creative professions, there’s long been a tension between commercial success and artistic freedom. And the field of photography is one of the clearest examples. When is a photo a work [...]

Mike Governale

by Jonathan Everitt

Long before the rise of Midtown Plaza, or the Inner Loop, or the suburban two-car garage, electric trolleys carried Rochester residents from here to there, below the sidewalks. But by June 30, 1956, the Rochester Subway was dead—if not yet buried. Mike created this modern-day Rochester Subway map with fellow RIT alum Otto Vondrak, who [...]

David Cowles

by Jonathan Everitt

You might be an artist when your choice in comic books is more about the creator than the characters. At least, that’s true for David. One of David’s greatest influences: The Fab Four. “Whenever I need direction, creatively, I ask: What would The Beatles do?” he says. “John Buscema was tops for me,” David says [...]

Dan Bentley

by Jonathan Everitt

At 13” tall and 15” wide, “Helix” is composed of a 1940s Revere 8mm movie projector and a Kodak Brownie Starmatic. The Revere Model 85 was designed in 1939 by Philmore F. Sperry. The Starmatic, manufactured from 1959 to 1961, was designed by Arthur H. Crapsey, one of Eastman Kodak’s first industrial designers. Photo by [...]

Evan Dawson

by Jonathan Everitt

When he isn’t writing about wine country, Evan is a reporter and anchor at 13WHAM-TV, Rochester’s ABC affiliate.There was a time when this deeply passionate wine writer’s tastes ran sweet. And shallow. But Evan found his way into wine the way many do: by simply hitting the trail. “On my first trip to the Finger [...]

Asher Hoffman

by Jonathan Everitt

“The look of the jewelry is very much its own thing, but part of that look comes from the way the material can be and can’t be worked,” Asher says of working in stainless steel. “Pushing the limits of the material is a big part of it.”Skulls, crosses, stars and shields have all survived for [...]

St.Monci

by Jonathan Everitt

“Lemon Drop,” from a series created for the Sweet Meat Co. show in Rochester in January 2010. St. Monci describes his work as an amalgamation of everything he’s seen and absorbed.Notice everything, everywhere. That simple, guiding principle came from a stranger years ago and has shaped this artist’s vision for his work ever since. “One [...]

Lyndsey D’Arcangelo

by Jonathan Everitt

Sports reporter. Copywriter. Blogger. Novelist. Lyndsey’s profession has always been about the written word. It’s also been the silver lining that followed years of secrecy and alienation as a closeted gay teen—a subject that has inspired three novels for this author so far. Lyndsey’s first novel received the Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Debut [...]

Kate Melton

by Jonathan Everitt

Kate captured this shot at Charlotte beach at Ontario Beach Park in Rochester.A good story. Great light. Soulful eyes. Those are the simple, powerful building blocks of this Rochester photographer’s work. “Behind every person’s eyes is a story to be told,” Kate says. “And it’s my job to tell it.” A photographer who emerged just [...]

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